Oft Have I Read That Innocence Retreats Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAABBCCDDEEFFGG| Oft have I read that Innocence retreats | A |
| Where cooling streams salute ye summer Seats | A |
| Singing at ease she roves ye field of flowrs | A |
| Or safe with shepheards lys among the bowrs | A |
| But late alas I crossd a country fare | B |
| And found No Strephon nor Dorinda there | B |
| There Hodge William Joynd to cully ned | C |
| While Ned was drinking Hodge William dead | C |
| There Cicely Jeard by day the slips of Nell | D |
| ere ye night was ended Cicely fell | D |
| Are these the Virtues which adorn the plain | E |
| Ye bards forsake your old Arcadian Vein | E |
| To sheep those tender Innocents resign | F |
| The place where swains nymphs are said to shine | F |
| Swains twice as Wicked Nymphs but half as sage | G |
| Tis sheep alone retrieve ye golden age | G |
Thomas Parnell
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